This weekend Stiles Machinery, Inc. will welcome almost 200 manufacturing decision makers to the industry’s most forward thinking event of the year - the Executive Briefing Conference. Taking place Sunday, April 23rd through Tuesday, April 25th in Detroit, Michigan, the EBC delivers company leaders an innovative advantage for succeeding in today’s manufacturing landscape by inspiring them through knowledge, strategies and best practices from the industry’s top thought leaders and innovators. This year promises to be exceptional by tackling issues in workforce development, surviving in a digital world, economic forecasting for our industry and reinventing strategies to help leaders keep up with the fast-paced changes in business.

Taking place in Detroit, America’s great comeback city and the original manufacturing epicenter, attendees will be immersed in trends, technologies and opportunities to remain competitive and profitable. Expect thought provoking discussions from keynote speakers including New York Times best-selling author Josh Linkner, speaking on inspiring, disruptive innovation and Alan Beaulieu sharing his popular economic forecast and advice on managing current economic cycles and Jennifer McNelly addressing the skills gap and offering tools on how to overcome it. Plant tours through Ford’s River Rouge Complex, FANUC America and JB Cutting will give attendees a behind-the-scenes showcase of some of the most progressive manufacturing facilities. Case studies and seminars with industry peers and experts will discuss how to capitalize on data management, trends in automation and smart manufacturing providing strategic and practical information aimed at solving manufacturing challenges for the current and future shop.

This is the 14th year the Executive Briefing Conference has been bringing company leaders together for intentional inspiration on succeeding in today’s manufacturing landscape. This conference is pleased to welcome sponsors Blum, Siemens Corporation and Schuler Consulting to EBC 2017.

​About Stiles Machinery Inc.For more than 50 years, Stiles has been helping manufacturers succeed. As the largest supplier of qualitymachinery, Stiles provides a Total Production Solutions approach by also offering equipment integration, financialservices, education, service and parts. By having a wealth of solutions whether defined as people, products orservices, Stiles merges the best thinking and the best ideas into a solution that works best for their customers.Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., Stiles has regional offices in High Point, North Carolina; Bristol, PA;Coppell, Texas; and Rancho Cucamonga, California. Stiles is a proud member of the HOMAG Group, a globalleader in the production of industrial machines for manufacturing.Visit Stiles at www.stilesmachinery.com.